The diagnosis of infectious diseases by whole genome next generation sequencing: a new era is opening

Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2014 Mar 6:4:25. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00025. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Marc Lecuit¹, Marc Eloit²

Affiliations

¹ Biology of Infection Unit, Institut Pasteur Paris, France ; Inserm U1117 Paris, France ; Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut Imagine, Paris Descartes University Paris, France ; Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Necker-Enfants Malades University Hospital Paris, France.
² Laboratory of Pathogen Discovery, Department of Virology, Institut Pasteur Paris, France ; PathoQuest Paris, France.

No abstract available

Keywords: bacteriology; diagnostic tests; infectious disease medicine; microbiology; next-generation sequencing; routine; virology.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Communicable Diseases / diagnosis*
High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing / methods*
High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing / trends
Humans
Microbiological Techniques / methods*
Microbiological Techniques / trends
Molecular Diagnostic Techniques / methods*
Molecular Diagnostic Techniques / trends